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Smyth: Mass in D & The Wreckers Overture / Oramo, BBC Symphony
$21.99
Details
- Composer
- SMYTH, DAME ETHEL
- Artist
- Hurrell, Morison, Johnson, Rock, Ferris, Oramo
- Format
- SACD
- Label
- Chandos
- Released
- Oct 04, 2019
- Catalog #
- CHSA 5240
- UPC
- 095115524022
About
The BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus under Oramo with an exceptional quartet of soloists give a vivid and heartfelt interpretation of Smyth’s earliest large-scale choral work. Dame Ethel Mary Smyth, DBE was an English composer and a member of the women's suffrage movement. Her compositions include songs, works for piano, chamber music, orchestral works, choral works and operas. Smyth tended to be marginalized as a ‘woman composer’, as though her work could not be accepted as mainstream, yet when she produced more delicate compositions, they were criticized for not measuring up to the standard of her male competitors. She was the first female composer to be granted a damehood. Smyth's extensive body of work includes the Concerto for Violin, Horn and Orchestra and the Mass in D. Her opera The Wreckers is considered by some critics to be the "most important English opera composed during the period between Purcell and Britten." Another of her operas, Der Wald, mounted in 1903, was for more than a century the only opera by a woman composer ever produced at New York's Metropolitan Opera (until Kaija Saariaho's L'Amour de loin in December 2016).
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REVIEW:
With all the awareness of the need to promote female composers it is surprising that no national opera company has taken up Ethel Smyth’s masterpiece The Wreckers. This new recording of the overture reminds us of just what a splendid work it is.
The bulk of the new recording is given over to the Mass in D, which is an exultant outpouring, here given its head by the BBC forces under a conductor who seems to have an innate understanding of the British musical temperament.
– Lark Reviews
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REVIEW:
With all the awareness of the need to promote female composers it is surprising that no national opera company has taken up Ethel Smyth’s masterpiece The Wreckers. This new recording of the overture reminds us of just what a splendid work it is.
The bulk of the new recording is given over to the Mass in D, which is an exultant outpouring, here given its head by the BBC forces under a conductor who seems to have an innate understanding of the British musical temperament.
– Lark Reviews
Tracklist 7 tracks
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1 Les naufrageurs (The Wreckers): Overture 09:14
- Track
- 1
- Title
- Les naufrageurs (The Wreckers): Overture
- Duration
- 09:14
- Composer
- Ethel Smyth
- Ensemble
- BBC Symphony Orchestra
- Conductor
- Sakari Oramo
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2 Kyrie 09:01
- Track
- 2
- Title
- Kyrie
- Duration
- 09:01
- Composer
- Ethel Smyth
- Ensemble
- BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra
- Conductor
- Sakari Oramo
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3 Credo 17:00
- Track
- 3
- Title
- Credo
- Duration
- 17:00
- Composer
- Ethel Smyth
- Performer
- Susanna Hurrell, Catriona Morison, Ben Johnson, Duncan Rock
- Ensemble
- BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra
- Conductor
- Sakari Oramo
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4 Sanctus 04:33
- Track
- 4
- Title
- Sanctus
- Duration
- 04:33
- Composer
- Ethel Smyth
- Performer
- Catriona Morison
- Ensemble
- BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra
- Conductor
- Sakari Oramo
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5 Benedictus 06:00
- Track
- 5
- Title
- Benedictus
- Duration
- 06:00
- Composer
- Ethel Smyth
- Performer
- Susanna Hurrell
- Ensemble
- BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra
- Conductor
- Sakari Oramo
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6 Agnus Dei 07:34
- Track
- 6
- Title
- Agnus Dei
- Duration
- 07:34
- Composer
- Ethel Smyth
- Performer
- Ben Johnson
- Ensemble
- BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra
- Conductor
- Sakari Oramo
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7 Gloria 16:37
- Track
- 7
- Title
- Gloria
- Duration
- 16:37
- Composer
- Ethel Smyth
- Performer
- Susanna Hurrell, Catriona Morison, Ben Johnson, Duncan Rock
- Ensemble
- BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra
- Conductor
- Sakari Oramo